New Drone A.I. Wins Dogfights With Fighter Pilots Like It's NBD

When artificial intelligence systems started beating humans at things, we didn’t think too much of it. Sure, it makes sense that a computer would be able to crunch the probabilities for a highly mathematical game like chess and store enough information to win at Jeopardy!. But when Google’s AlphaGo AI beat human world champion Lee Se-Dol at Go, the ancient Chinese game of creativity and strategy, we started to get a little worried. Now, the University of Cincinnati says their ALPHA system, an A.I. fighter pilot, is consistently beating one of the best fighter pilots on the planet in simulated rounds of air combat. Flight simulators and air combat games have long tried to present gamers with realistic AI opponents, but they’ve rarely held up in hyper-realistic simulations of the…